July/August catch up

All the flowers are growing adding splashes of colour & enticing lots of bees.

Lots of grasshoppers & slo worms too.

We have 5 Aubergine plants that are flowering but have yet to see any Aubergines.

At the garden centre they had free bags of onion sets that were past their best, so I picked up a few threw out the bad ones & so far have some healthy looking plants. They are red, white and snowball.

Lots of Butternut squashes forming & getting bigger by the day.

Pumpkins, Italian tomatoes and red cabbage with brocolli behind.

We've started picking the runner beans but need sunshine to bring them on a bit.

Lots & lots of chillies, hoping they'll go red soon.

We've had 17 cucumbers so far & plenty still growing. I've just made some cucumber sandwich pickle with a couple of them, have to wait 3/4 weeks to see how it turns out.

My first red tomato picked last week.

We've harvested all of the potatoes & shallots now.

I'm getting lots of carrots too, I didn't thin them out until they were big enough to eat so none have been wasted.

I'm astounded this year by the amount of courgettes we've had 61 now. Because I've tried lots of different recipes with them we haven't got bored with them in fact I'll miss them in the winter. I'm doing a blog post on my other blog of courgette recipes.

Week ten on the allotment

I found this little fella yesterday and he kindly posed for about 20 photos.

The sweetcorn is doing well.

The nasturtiums are providing a welcome splash of colour.

We now have 1 inch runners beans along with quite a few flowers.

Peas.

Rainbow chard, I picked some yesterday, haven't tried it yet though.

Purple flowers on one of the aubergines, very hard to photograph as it's quite low to the ground.

My first courgette and tomato and some more radishes.

Another courgette, rainbow chard and yet more radishes.

A bit of colour and the wormery.

We've had quite a lot of rain this week and it's very warm too so everything is having a growth spurt. Lots of flowers on the plants too so hopefully after a bit of sunshine and if Mr bee comes across there may be something to eat! We've put out some slug pubs and tested lager then bitter to no avail so now have real ale in there.

Lots of insects around, don't know if these are good guys or bad.

I have managed to pick some sweet peas.

Pretty runner bean flowers.

A crystal lemon cucumber apparently a favourite of Victorian times.

A sweet pepper.

My first lot of Desiree potatoes, there's hopefully a lot more but I only dug what I needed.

I've bought a wormery with 1000 composting worms, which will hopefully give us not only lovely compost but some rich fertiliser too.